Labor Day Breakfast Very Big

Jobs with Justice Activists pushed health care at the Labor
Day Breakfast

Dallas AFL-CIO Financial Secretary - Treasurer Jim McCasland announced
that the 2007 Labor Day Breakfast was the second largest ever, and the very
largest during a non-election year! At least 25 of the participants were activists
with Jobs with Justice. Union members, church activists, civil rights activists,
and civil libertarians were in our ranks. The Glantz family (red shirts in the
photo) made sure that everybody kept health care near the top of their political
agendas. Jobs with justice stickers saying "Health Care for All" were
worn by almost everybody. Katie Glantz and Hobie Hukill made sure that the entire
crowd of over 350 people had a chance to sign a petition for the Conyers health
care bill, H.R. 676.

Even though no local elections are pending, about two dozen elected
officials attended the breakfast. The increased interest shows that labor's
work in the electoral arena is being noticed. More than 1 of 4 voters in America
comes from a union family. Union political campaigns are the only voice for
working people in the entire array of political life.

Sheriff
Lupe Valdez (left), Labor Day speaker and International President of the Transit
Workers Union Jim Little, and Screen Actors Guild leader Linda Dowell posed
for this shot.

State Representative Barbara Mallory Carroway and Senator Royce
West shared an observation during the Labor Day Breakfast